How To Air Condition Your Hot Rod


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How to Air Condition Your Hot Rod: Step-By-Step Guide To Hot Rod AC Installation Transform your hot rod into a cool, comfortable ride with "How to Air Condition Your Hot Rod," the ultimate guide for hot rod enthusiasts who want to enjoy modern comfort without sacrificing performance or style. Whether you're cruising down the highway on a sweltering summer day or showing off your classic beauty at a local car show, this comprehensive manual provides all the knowledge and skills you need to install an air conditioning system in your beloved hot rod. Inside this book, you'll discover: - Detailed Introduction: Understand the importance of air conditioning in hot rods and how it enhances your driving experience. - Comprehensive Overview: Learn the basics of air conditioning systems, including their components and how they work. - Planning and Preparation: Assess your hot rod's setup, measure space, plan the layout, select the right system, and consider your budget and timeline. - Essential Tools and Materials: Get a complete list of tools, materials, parts, and safety equipment needed for a successful installation. - Step-by-Step Installation Guide: Follow detailed instructions for every stage of the installation process, from removing existing components to preparing the engine bay, installing the compressor, condenser, and evaporator, wiring the system, and charging it with refrigerant. - Testing and Troubleshooting: Perform initial system checks, performance testing, and fine-tuning to ensure optimal functionality. Learn how to diagnose and solve common installation issues. - Maintenance and Upkeep: Discover tips for regular maintenance, seasonal checks, and long-term care to keep your air conditioning system in peak condition. - Real-Life Case Studies: Gain insights from real-life examples of successful installations, complete with challenges faced and solutions implemented. With clear explanations, and practical tips, "How to Air Condition Your Hot Rod" is a must-have resource for any hot rod owner looking to upgrade their vehicle with modern air conditioning. Whether you're a seasoned mechanic or a DIY enthusiast, this book will guide you through the entire process, ensuring your hot rod remains as cool as it looks.




How to Hot Rod Volkswagen Engines


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Fire and ice . . . that’s what you get when you take the cool looks of the Volkswagen Beetle, Bus, Karmann Ghia, Thing, Squareback or Fastback and unleash the hot performance of the air-cooled VW engine. How to hot Rod Volkswagen Engines gives the real skinny for breathing-on, blueprinting and bulletproofing your air-cooled Vee-dub. Street, custom, kit car, off-road, or full-race, this book gives you all the air-cooled engine-building basics to find and put to the pavement hidden horsepower. Includes tips on carburetion, ignition and exhaust tuning, case beefing, cylinder-head flow work, camshaft selection, lubrication and cooling upgrades, 6-to 12-volt conversions and much more. Plus there’s a natty 6-page history of the origins of the first air-cooled VW engines. Go ahead. You deserve it! Double or triple the output of your air-cooled Volkswagen. Or add 10-15 horsepower with easy bolt-on mods. Mild or wild, do it the right way—with this book. More than 300 photos, drawings and charts to guide you through your VW’s innards. And don’t look back.




How to Build a Hot Rod


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This book is designed for anyone who has ever seen a hot rod and wondered, "How do I build one of those?" Whether you're a newcomer to the hobby or a seasoned, experienced builder, this book covers every aspect of building a hot rod from start to finish. Author Dennis Parks helps the reader select the right vehicle to build and leads them through the process of making it happen. He answers basic questions and sheds light on the entire process of building a hot rod with lots of no-nonsense advice for any degree of builder.







Hot Rodder's Bible : The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Dream Machine


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Get the lowdown on building the rod of your dreams with direction from the experts. Here's everything you'll ever need in one information-packed volume: finding a donor car, design, body and paint work, chassis and suspension modifications, selecting and installing engines and transmissions, interiors, accessories, hot rodding events, clubs, and collectibles. Contains insider tricks and tips from veteran hot rod experts.







How to Hot Rod Your Fender Amp


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This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of getting the best sound possible out of their Fender amp with simple and advanced modifications. These include essential and fundamental tips like selecting tubes, capacitors, pots, and other electronic equipment, as well as biasing and setting up your amp. It also covers great hot-rodding enhancements to give you the tone of the pros at your fingertips, such as making one channel into an overdrive channel, modifying tone controls, making one channel either a Marshall or Vox channel (changing preamp and tone arrangement—not a permanent, destructive mod), building splitter boxes to run two amps simultaneously, creating splitter speaker setups within one amp, building the perfect gig amp (something light and portable, but with big sound, like an early Mesa Boogie), and more.




How to Hot Rod Your Fender Amp


Book Description

This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of getting the best sound possible out of their Fender amp with simple and advanced modifications. These include essential and fundamental tips like selecting tubes, capacitors, pots, and other electronic equipment, as well as biasing and setting up your amp. It also covers great hot-rodding enhancements to give you the tone of the pros at your fingertips, such as making one channel into an overdrive channel, modifying tone controls, making one channel either a Marshall or Vox channel (changing preamp and tone arrangement—not a permanent, destructive mod), building splitter boxes to run two amps simultaneously, creating splitter speaker setups within one amp, building the perfect gig amp (something light and portable, but with big sound, like an early Mesa Boogie), and more.




The Complete Builder's Guide to Hot Rod Chassis and Suspensions


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In How to Build Hot Rod Chassis, highly regarded hot rodding author Jeff Tann covers everything enthusiasts need to know about designing and building their new chassis and suspension system. It thoroughly explores both factory and aftermarket frames, modified factory solid-axle suspensions, and aftermarket independent front and rear suspension setups. No matter what design a reader may be considering for his own car, How to Build Hot Rod Chassis delivers a wealth of information on the pros and cons of all systems available.




Building Your Own Street Rod Made Easy


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COLOR VERSION, Large Print. This book is a guide for building a street rod. It includes planning, ordering parts, title & registration, building instructions & procedures, and all aspects of the project from start to finish. Includes all the resources and their contact information. This book as the title says, "Made Easy," is simple, easy to understand and gives the builder credit for knowing the basic tools, how to use measuring devices, shop safety, etc. Other "how to build" books are long, too complicated, wordy, give more information than needed and don't list all the resources for the build. It's written in large easy to read print. The author has been building street rods and hot rods for 23 years. Also, he is an FAA licensed aircraft mechanic, commercial pilot, and has degree's in Aeronautical Technology, Human Resource Management and Social Psychology.